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“Yes, Chairht-duty supervisor answered at once

“What’s the status of Max Hanley’s radio ID chip?”

Each ically enal to the constellation of colobe Powered by the nervous system, with an occasional transdermal boost of electricity like with a pacemaker, the devices allowed Juan to knohere any member of his team was at all times

“I’o The coo, about twowith his son Eddie’s is working fine I show him in central Rome, about a quarter mile from the Colosseum”

“Thank you” Juan released the intercouised to look like a Bakelite phone from the 1930s “Max’s transponder’s out”

“I already figured it would be,” Eddie replied

“That’s how they tracked you to Rome, isn’t it? Kyle Hanley was chipped when he was in Greece And they took the precaution of sweeping Max in case we did the sa”

“They probably carved it out of his thigh, in whatever vehicle they used to etaway”

“But even the best chips can only give you a rough approximation, they aren’t as powerful as GPS,” Juan said

“That’s why I think Kyle helped theht Max and ed to ht fro it for the last part of our trip He was left alone for a few minutes in one of the bedrooms while we spoke with Dr Jenner Supposedly, he was unconscious, but if he ake he could have called Kovac, or soiven them the name of the hotel and the room number”

“So Kovac tracked hiuided him to the exact location”

“That’s the only way it makes any sense”

“Just spitballing here, but what about Jenner? He could have blown our location to the Responsivists”

“He could have,” Eddie agreed, “but I could tell he hates the counselor hates crack Also, you didn’t see the way Kovac pistol-whipped him No, Jenner’s definitely on our side on this”

“Like I said, just throwing it out there”